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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Doubled Eye, post: 3096036, member: 92790&quot;]I grew up in CT (That&#039;s Connecticut, not Coin Talk) where s mint marks were rare as can be.&nbsp; In fact, the first actual coin purchase I made by myself in 1978 at age 9 was a shiny uncirculated &#039;68-s.&nbsp; It cost 35 cents.&nbsp; The local Woolworth (called Wolco at that point) had an ancient mechanized display case in the jewelry area (!), with trays, full of coins, that were attached to what looked like a bicycle chain on two gears that rotated at the push of a button.&nbsp; I pedaled myself there after school, bought the &#039;68-s, and marveled at the alien mint mark for almost as long as I wondered at the cent&#039;s bizarre bulginess. The next day I plunked down 25 cents for the &#039;69-s and endlessly knit my brows as to why this second coin was so flat compared to the &#039;68. Hubs and the minting process were unknown to me then.&nbsp; In 1991 I moved to San Francisco and would find s-mint cents all over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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